Rom, Germany

Rome is a municipality in the district of Ludwigsburg pleasure Parchim in Mecklenburg -Vorpommern ( Germany ). It is administered by the Office Parchimer surrounding headquartered in Parchim.

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Geography and transport

The municipality is located 7 km east of Parchim and seven kilometers west of Lübz. Federal highway 191 runs through the community. The Federal Highway 24 is accessible via the junction Parchim ( 18 km). The municipality is bounded to the south by the Müritz- Elde waterway. In the northern part there is the Darzer High Moor and the Wockertal.

The municipality of Rome include the districts Darze, Small Niendorf, Lancken, Paarsch, Rome and Stralendorf.

History

Lancken as the oldest village of the municipality of Rome was first documented in 1229.

Name

Rome 1310 Rome villa, 1320 called in Roma et Moedericz in 1329 and Rome in 1621 Rohm. The name comes from the Slavic and refers to the locator: City of Rome.

Incorporations

On 13 June 2004 Stralendorf was incorporated.

Attractions

→ See also List of monuments in Rome (Mecklenburg)

  • Simple half-timbered church dating from the 17th century (1668 )
  • Small neo-Gothic church from 1870/71 built in the district Paarsch
  • Fangelturm at Stralendorf; a purpose-built in the 14th century former watchtower, which is part of the outer border security ring around the town Parchim was

Small village church in Niendorf

Village church in Paarsch

Village church in Lancken

Personalities

Sons and daughters

  • Otto Weltzien ( born November 18, 1873 in Darze, † September 28, 1944 in Lüneburg), booksellers, literary historian and editor of the North Parchimer Deutsche Post, was primarily known for his work with John Brinckmann
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